[whatwg] Still beating the drawString() dead horse...

[Arve Bersvendsen]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:22:23 +0100, Stefan Haustein <sh at kobjects.org>  
wrote:

> Everything beyond is a separate use case that should be discussed  
> separately. I think the main problem here is that drawElement() was  
> suggested as a kind of replacement for drawString(), but it is actually  
> something completely different, that should be discussed separately.  
> drawElement() does not really remove the need for a simple API. I feel  
> like asking for a scissor, but being told that a combine harvester is  
> much more powerfull... That may be true, but it is also a bit  
> unpractical, lets say for something like a hair cut.

drawElement() is hardly unpractical, bloated or overkill, since it's  
actually probably the only way to get _somewhat_ predictable rendering of  
text, pioneered by almost 10 years of CSS.

drawString() reintroduces the unpredictability of font and layout  
differences without attempting to solve any of the problem.

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Arve Bersvendsen